Means for delivering change.



Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

In ventor: EMW 0L 65 Ram CAM 944m UNITED STATES PATENT Prion.

EDWARD B. GALLAHER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO CLOVER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

MEANS FOR DELIVERING CHANGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

Application filed June 20, 1908. Serial No. 439,576.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, EDWARD B. GALLAHER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, have made a new and useful Invention in Means for Delivering Change, of which the following is a specification.

My invent-ion is directed especially to devices designed for use in connection with the making of change in public places, such, for instance, as railway stations, post offices, cashiers booths in department stores and the like, and it has for its objects, first, to provide means whereby change may be delivered to a person to whom it is assigned in such manner as to enable him to quickly receive and appropriate it so as to thereby prevent unnecessary delay. Second, to provide means of the character indicated whereby two or more persons may simultaneously quickly receive and appropriate their change without delaying others following them.

It frequently occurs at railway stations, post offices and other public places that much delay is caused by reason of the fact that persons must necessarily pick up small coins one at a time from the flat surface of the change slab in the window before the cashier or agent. With such an arrangement one may very speedily 'make change and slide the same forward through the window for the person for whom it is intended, but the appropriation of such change is necessarily very slow, and particularly when delivered to persons wearing gloves. It also frequently happens that during a rush the cashier or ticket agent in sliding the change forward forces it over the outer edge of the slab so that it falls to the floor, thereby causing further delay. My improvement is designed to overcome all of these objectionable features and to enable the cashier or ticket agent not only to quickly make and deliver the change before the persons for whom it is intended, but also to enable them to expeditiously receive and appropriate it and then pass on. In actual practice it has been ascertained that by the use of my improvement during the busy hours in railway stations four times as many persons may receive and appropriate their change as is possible in the old way above referred to.

My invention will be fully understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a plan view of the booth or window of a cashier or ticket agent with my improvement attached thereto, the front wall of said booth being shown in transverse sectional view, stacks of coin being shown in plan view on the change table inside the window. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken through Fig. 1, the stacks of coins being shown in elevational View. Fig. 3 is a full sized sectional view taken on the line 0a.r Fig. l of my improved means for facilitating the delivery of coin, illustrating also in' dotted lines the hand of a person and the manner of using the device. Fig. 4t is a View similar to Fig. 1 illustrating a novel modified form in the nature of an inclined shelf with turned up outer edges.

Referring now to the drawings in detail and first to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, 1 represents the front wall of the booth of a cashier or ticket agent and 7 the window thereof, 2 being the change making and delivery table therein. 3 is the usual plate glass slab upon which stacks of coin 6, 6, are located in close proximity to the cashier or agent for delivery.

The structural parts so far described are well known and in general public use and it is customary in the making of change for the cashier or ticket agent to distribute the coins upon the coin slab inside of his office or booth of such denominations in close proximity to each other as will facilitate the making of change for other coins or bills of larger denominations, so that he may quickly slide the same forward over the glass slab to the person or persons for whom said change is intended. This separation of such coins into individual amounts for facilitating the delivery thereof is usually efiected during the interim between any rush and any slack in the tide of the passage of persons purchasing articles or tickets.

My improvement embraces the combining with the plate glass slab 3 a change deliverer of the conformation shown in plan view in Fig. 1, where the part 4 fits accurately Within the base of the window 7 and against the outer edge of the slab 3, the thickness of the part 4 being the same as that of the slab.

This change deliverer is constructed preferably in one piece of metal, wood, or any preferred material, and embraces a plurality of radially disposed cups or coin receptacles mg served and this person immediately grasps the same 111 the manner indicated 1n Fig. 3 by drawmg his fingers forward so that the coins here indicated by the numeral 8 are quickly and easily forced forward and grasped or clutched between the tips of the fingers and palm of the hand. With such an arrangement it is possible for a person receiving the coins to quickly and certainly pick them up no matter what the denomination, size or number, and it is obvious that a number of persons may be served almost simultaneously by reason of the radial disposition of the cups. It is also obvious that by reason of the possibility of the cashier or ticket agent being enabled to divide up his change into proper denominational values upon the change slab 3, as has heretofore been the custom, he may with my improvement deliver the same directly to the purchaser by sliding it forward in the same manner as was previously the case, but, as before pointed out, without any probability of forcing any one of such coins over the edge of the receiver, and also making it possible, as is obvious, for the purchaser to appropriate either one or any number of coins in the quickest possible manner, whether the fingers of the hand be free or gloved. If preferred these cups may be corrugated in their bottoms, as clearly illustrated in one instance Fig. 1, the corrugations having approximately the proper dimensions to admit of the tips of the fingers being drawn therethrough. I have ascertained, however, that excellent results are obtained with a simple cup-like device in which theedge of the cup bears the relation to the hand of the user and the fingers thereof, as illustrated in full size view Fig. 3. i

In Fig. 4 I have shown a modified form of the invention in which the coin receptacle takes the conformation or shape of an inclined shelf having an outer up-turned edge extending entirely around said shelf and not difierent substantially from the form shown in Fig. 1, such an arrangement making it possible for a cashier to deliver coins at any part thereof and have one or more persons receive the same in substantially the manner indicated in Fig. 3.

I am aware that prior to my invention coin delivery cups have been devised for use on counters, in stores and similar places, and

of such a structure that the cashier, after I having made the proper change, drops it bodily into the cup so that the person for whom it is intended may remove the same therefrom in a manner not substantially difierent from that in which it 'is designed to remove the coins from my device.

I am also aware that a change receiver for use in ticket ofiices, post ofiices and like public places has heretofore been devised having an inclined shelf extending from the inner side of the booth or oifice and having secured thereto on the underside thereof a plurality of tilted chutes so arranged that when the coin is delivered the person for whom it is intended may manually tilt the same with one hand and receive the coin with the other, thereby necessitating the use of both hands, and I make no claim hereinafter broad enough to include such structural devices, my invention being directed, as before pointed out, to a change making and change appropriating device with which the cashier or ticket agent may quickly assemble coins in predetermined numbers or values upon a coin slab and without the necessity of lifting them and deliver the same to a person by sliding it forward into a cup-shaped receptacle from which it may be extracted in the manner described, such an arrangement as hereinbefore stated making it possible to greatly facilitate both the making of the change by the cashier or ticket agent and the delivery of the same to the person for whom it is intended.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. Means for delivering change comprising a slab; a cup rigid therewith and having an upwardly inclined outer side whereby no obstruction is offered to' the withdrawal of the change by the fingers into the palm of the hand and communicating with said slab so as to offer no obstruction to the sliding of change from the top of said slab into the cu a.

5. Means for delivering change embracing a change slab and a cup the bottom of which is locatedbelow the top surface,of the slab; one of the inner surfaces of the cup constituting a downwardly inclined chute for permitting the change to descend by its own weight and the other an upwardly and outwardly inclined surface for permitting of its withdrawal.

3. Means for delivering change embracing a change slab and a cup rigid with said slab the bottom of which cup is located at a lower level than the top of the slab, said bottom being inclined outwardly and upwardly whereby no obstruction is ofiered in the removal of the change by the fingers into the palm of the hand.

1. Means for delivering change embracing a Wall having a Window therein; a change In testimony whereof I have signed my slab on one side of the Wall; a rigidly held name to this specification in the presence of cup shaped change receptacle on the other two subscribing Witnesses.

side communicating through said Window ED WARD B. GALLAHER. with said slab and having its Window sur- Witnesses:

face in substantially the same plane With the G. J. KINTNER,

top of said slab. M. F. KEATING. 

